pailler
French, noun/pa.je/
pailler is spelled P-A-I-L-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pailler is a French masculine noun meaning “straw house (a building to store straw)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Meule, tas de paille”.
What does pailler mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestraw house (a building to store straw)
- 2
masculinestraw pile
verb
- 1
to cover with straw
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Meule, tas de paille. 2. Cour d’une ferme où il y a de la paille, du foin. 3. Hangar où est entreposée la paille.
adjective: 1. Désigne la volaille élevée à la ferme, nourrie sur le pailler.
verb: 1. Recouvrir le sol de paille ou de matériaux tels que du fumier, du compost, de la tourbe, de l’écorce, des copeaux, etc. 2. Garnir de paille tressée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pailler
- paillers plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- paillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- paillé participle past
- paille first-person indicative present
- pailles indicative present second-person
- paillons first-person indicative plural
- paillez indicative plural present
- paillent indicative plural present
- paillais first-person imperfect indicative
- paillait imperfect indicative singular
- paillions first-person imperfect indicative
- pailliez imperfect indicative plural
- paillaient imperfect indicative plural
- paillai first-person historic indicative
- paillas historic indicative past
- pailla historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pailler?
- /pa.je/
- /pɑ.je/
- \pa.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pailler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pailler in French?
pailler appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).